The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1899, Page 19

N KN SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY,- JUNE 11, 1899. OID h ting the matter ng the brutes imp. 1d Chinaman, whose was the inhu girls, and it was their sale into ty vears ago Quc st of the Chine ent to the rich profited by riboo fie sinc 1 prosperot a view r name ¢ among e gold-hunters 1ds, an e. For (47 \ows = ‘\\\\\\\\u (=1] the two women to wash gold in his placer claim during the day, and what few hours they could steal from the . night he compelled them to wash the , miners' clothes. Between them they did the laund work for the camp and Quong pocketed the pay. Nailed Her Up in a Box. During these years Quong has ap- parently taken a good deal of interest in his two little girls. Every miner in the camp knew the children. Much as they hated the father, they often gave . i s ; - ng operations candies and small presents to the jut his wife from China. But youngsters, who had a pretty free run o he had taken another wo- Of the mining claims in the vicinity ™ 1 him on a sort of common Pele, the younger girl, was 13 years r s o0ld at the first 5f the year, and her sis- ived from China ter is only about two years oider, al- arried this second won Hers w an law whom the bru 1an un re the 1 father s0l¢ - though she looks nearer 20. Three months ago Quong, the father, 1 sold the elder girl to another Chinaman at Soda Creek, about 100 miles from her n ver \en Quong's first wife arrived home in Quesnelle. He got $250 cash ne from her home in China Quong evi- for her. 5 5 lently t)ought that with the two From the Chinese standpoint of value - Bt vomen he could not be expected to she was not nearly so pretty and demean nimself with work any longer. shapely as Pele, the younger sister, tl {ls So for over ten years Quong has retired Her father therefore let her go at re- from active personal labor. He forced duced rates. Her feet were too large AT R T e T e 2 o i i e o e o S R S S R R S SR R ek 2 o SR SR SR A TR SR R SR SR SR SR S o e k2 2 2 o o 2 o I b o b 2 ot A G g S 0t g gt g 0 o G G 2 g g g g g o g b g oh o b R S8 SR . INVENTOR HOE TELLS HOW HE BUILT HIS FIRST BIG PRINTING PRESS. EXHAUSTED SLAVE BOo SHE was B L OUT OF THE pe IN \HICH IMPRISONED | the Chinese connoisseur who in- spected them, and, in their own phrase- ology, she had simply not been bred for More attention was paid to the yeical refinement of the younger girl. It was in the coldest part of winter for that the girl was sold into slavery. The two white men who hauled and her like so much goods we ful of detection, and in as- delivered of course, fe order to insure safe delivery sumed a C. O. D. the girl up in a be to contain her. through ‘the top to prisoner was helpless live in pain and anx to the de Pleaded for Her Liberty. The mother of the girl pleaded pite- ously for the freedom of the daughter, they 1d nailed . enough bored The only were admit air. nd could AUGHTERS = INIO SIAVERY. Nailed Them Up in Boxes and Shipped Them Like so Much Freight to Distant Purchasers. Crime Was Accidentally Discovered. SISTER, but even the white men said that®ihe deal had been made and nothing about it could be taken back. The thermometer was below zero when the Loxed girl, late at night, was loaded on a heavy sleigh and started away in the hands of her drivers. They arove all that night and the best part of the next day, the girl being never once freed - from the box that jolted along in the sled through the No wonder that when-ehe ar PO THE House, one of the stopping places on the Cariboo road. spoken for a year ago, and during that period her feet had been pressed into small enough shape same two white men about three s after the sale of her elder si. It was due to the curiosity of & wee ter. proprietress of es that Pele's awtul plight was dis- T covered. How the MRADE- ONE- OF OTHE-R\} MINERS NRASHING she remained nailed up in the box out in the winter The men drove away in the morning. It was night before the journ pleted, and Pele was still nailed up and almost dead from exhaustion, close con- finement and lack of nourishment. Mrs. Langdale reported the matter to the authorities as soon as she could. Che Attc General's Department is investigating it with a view to She was actually with her early late the next to suit the pur- was com- Pele was delivered by taste. one ¢f the stopping ney now Sam Lee’s house, at Soda Creek, that my. oather was still very cold when ng the unnatural people. she was unconscious and nearly dead. ¢ i oo SES ST IR EE CH rn social purity leagues have Weeks went. by before she was re- .. 2y = o pq B ed-up taken the up and it is likely to covered fully enough to step outside the gch: ' BESERE F e go hard > slave dealers y tha* time the whole horrible story " made public. It came about the sale of. the younger sister The men arrived at Mrs. Langdale's house about 11 o’clock at night and left the bo. One of the ilway man- te Sir James y Company. most popu in the sleigh out in the yard. {0 the: 58.me SoTt. Ofslavery. by the sMrs. "Langdale ‘happened’ to" iwalk visit to a little rapacious father, Pele, boxed the through the yard and heard a moaning country station in the Midlands, where he same way, was being hauled like a Scund coming from the box. The giri ’»“;"";"' himself he was 1 findw. 5 & Wl A e et he train ent : the station, his bundle of goods to a distant purcha P L5 e LRt carri and a shrewd- Purity Leagues Take Up the Matter. but fortunately some one discover looking porter there was any that a lm};; :um;ln]\ 1»-»:“:: v in Langdale promptly endeavored 8.t be Ll‘m;\"q d:;‘(‘r, '1'hrr:i Vil box, a e horrible traffic was at once the ention “he received Sir X, and the hc to release her, but the stout boards of James offered the man two shillings, exposed. Sale of the Second Sister. Sam ILee is anothcr who has made his money in mining, and the t that he had another wife already did not, of course, interfere with his buying a second girl to be his attractive than her and she brought a higher price. hundred dollars was paid to her her by a iaman who lived near the 150-Mile the box were nailed down too tight and rich Chinaman T men and der woman be released. They laughed brutally and said that they had been paid $1 part of the work, and as long as they threats nor entreaties could effect the reiease of the hysterical slave girl, and which wa pocketed. ed her efforts. She went in to the _Then ¢ aeiavine (o, (he e ¢ s, inquire v anded that the boxed-ub aware who I am, my ma e “Yes was the reply. “Mr. Allport. —fellow-servant of the compan sir. ever take tips from the general public, 5 for doing their sir! The ready answer brought a smile to delivered the box they “did :not care e manager's face, and the matter went whether the girl was dead or not. no farther. s, Langdale was alone. Neither ———————— s 8 g o D S O o o o o O e S S R o S I o SR TR e o o S SR S S e i SR SR SR SR SR SR N R SN SR SR T s o S oh b S o 2 2h o i o S S S 0 o g 0 2 o 0 o o S g 0 o 0 o o i o b o 2 S S SR R S e o e this newspaper present form; p molding th a ts of paper that ¢ of the with, it 1 months 1t is more complicated yrms of mechanism to which great p is compo: ch more than as it 'will Tun withont ) over two miles of this width of an ordinary news \dicates a capacity of only are these papers printed af t, folded and counted. In other n connected with the paper from until the finished product emerzcs nd papers per hour means 1500 per ea off on your watch. n their ordinary 0 in an hour, ind is massive in its proportions It handles the vapers > 0o rapidly for the in out so fast that the continual speed means that e th of a second. How ¢ of time is a marvel diff ration of the pr eives its impr i can he mad manent imori at 1o con nd. Yet it is donc nk does not ‘smut nor rub off . T ot delicate iines of an fllustration are rately reproduced. Genesis of the Invention. is easy to underst chine this. performing o n flerent operatic chievements rather than ® gle one. Tt is 1d na development from the wooden serew press used by Guttenberg back in the middle of the fifteenth century. But wh re is no hard and fast line separating the new from the 1 f rom the primitive in the history of printing, there ara ot ve marked by notable advances and.improvements in %. when a Saxon named Fred- One important change took pla ch the paper was carrled on a e in 1 arick Koenig devised @ form of DI 1 per, with js, impr X tained the rate of 80 sheets per hour. hour, the record of the old hand pre dvance. first_importanc tral c t printed upon one side. @ Journals which before had been limited in their circulation by ility to furni 3 ones w United Stz he 1 and an had Many ft upon this plan of press There was a demand for something better, for First Rapid Printing Press. In 1845 tae firm of R. vears engaged in the manufacture A rd to on tne cylinder greater speed could be obtaine struction of Ty s of forn This was a ag tapering toward the feet of tI i ating fingers. BT them up evenly, all with speed igiled abou A man throws back a lever: the g ng faster and faster until {hese 5 The type-revolving machine marked a great advance in rapid printing. the problem had been settled, at least for a long time nd 1t was believ. v conceivable that any paper would want to print to come. more than 2 The t in this_countrv and Europ e pl use of flexible paper matrf cylinder and received its impression from a form of type carried backward 1 ward on a flat bed irst of these ¢ d lever forms, because the cylinder had to stop three times—that three separat¢ motions—to each impression. But 1814 Koeni i on this by a_continuously revolving cylinder press which at- The advinc Mor . it mtroduced a new prin seloping the modern high-spe improvements in )enig's press came into use. e to wn as the double cy nswered the require f the 1 1l in size and circulation. But with the adv ation running up to many thousands Hoe & Co., which number of exprimental machines wer, the experimenters that by placing th press known as the *“Hoe Ty ts, taken out Ly Richard M s placed in the Ledger office these inventions consisted as of type o somplishe the newspaper. by The ype. firig_the t for lacking up or forming mly in position, the s i required first of four impre four boy 00 she hour, ‘four- er” or " machine, 8000 papers per hour printed upon one side. eased more impression made with : spape achines ‘wer nde: 1 the papers rapidly increa started. The new pr es but also in Great Bri ain, 1t was scarcely 000 conies per hour. vpe-revolving pres hefore the ¢ ures demanded still further improvements. First Curved Stereotype Plates, Various experiments had demonstrated the possibility of casting stere- The process was brought to perfection by the ices upon which the metal was cast In curved molds to any circle desired. These plates were placed upon the type-re- volving machines Instead of the were thus enabled to duplicate t. ates on a curve. forms. € inder presses was little more rapid than the earlier to 800 sh which pre the method of handling the paper were devised nds of pr s improven a speed of 4000 per hour. . “The result was the Revolving Machine,” The true_cirel hout danger of th ssion ey The running spee thus giving, with cylinders were many as ten grouped around the cen ving an aggregate speed of about 20000 papers per hour A revolution in-newspaper printing took ses were adopted not only throughout the es had scarcely heen put into general operation pe stant growth in circulation fig- « The newspaper publishers ms and to run several machines from 200 sheels per s, was a decided been of the through ‘the r sults, that the 1 found that human structed t on this style In 1871 R. Hoe & hensive manner and higher speed than ani apers when they it of the daily, with proved inadequate, speed. v been for many d this prob- nd finally it oc- ad of the paper the set-off of the drying inks. con- first one fe ducing 1 problem the daily press. rely fastening tal positiom for each shaped. i with proper e beds it 1 . and the cylin- ing out. - neces: obtained was what was a_running ¢ . As the dem. added. cturers we after printing The mos Stephen D. Tucke A “gathering and d of the mode teen minutes. Thus it w which no one man ¢ until tary or mi ta The pr mpletely X, or any .d other: the same time, with fty. In some the of these mac! ines were Kent in cc The difliculty in obtaining high spe printing fast enough, bui in gettmg the in disposing of them quickly after they b The demand was for a press which would print from a_continuo of paper, leaving the ichine. *hine should pe requirements of the mode he difficultics were first s co-operation of the inkm: Another drawback was in n and strength. e rolls of paper meeting. t! f finding a strong « While these improvements were being wr workin nd the reliable important devi W member of the t as they were printed. 1t 1 be seen the rapid-work iy It is a co the demand i ss which w tions was fed from. a roll rforated after the pri separated th sired number’ These, by mea turned off on ta sheet flvers This press for the first ti the process of printing. as that term is undersiood to-day. perform in connectian with it weére the starting of the pres see that its work was performed properly. and taking away the papers t after they were piled flat on the receiving board. a view to turning out the papers with greater ra and New York offic mar tant operation. with these m large Londo After they s to be cut and folded re satis necessary, too. to i form all these oper shec It w 1ds could not work fast enc \ newspaper. : Co. set to work to study this problem in a compre- to Solve the difficulties in the way of attaining much d ever before been mpted. g ns were set to work on different phases of the prob- me, money and effort were expended without stint in the study of all man- n. sheet printed. i wa , Who were induced to de New Ink and New. Paper. btaining paper i were le to mak The paper make 2 requirements. ught out on the problem of a rapid nd accurate delive » relating to this m firm_of ‘R. and wa the er was the Hoe & Co. 1t w, ivering cylinde s depend i web pre the entire credit. It TV es examples of a really wonderful mechanism constructed in response to ¢ place. specific demand. The expert mechanicians engaged in the manufacture o their presses knew what was wanted. They sat down and figured to thes 1 their issue, and ‘many new sults just as experts in other fields might solve problems in mathem crete illu s strong enou icted in 1871 tion of the say v the cutters em. into o ga of perfect of a switch. ng cylinder so construc were, at pid- as five hines was not in d passed through the pr had pa ctory fons itself. | h to keep up with the \d in tryin f the situat One was in oided by the the roll of uniform per- a study of pro- hey solved the and cheap paper such as could’be afforded by the press mant- verance of the sheety of the printed pape ble to:handle the n mechanism -on- which the spe Without it one of the great machin would black & press room with papers before it had been in operation fif- "3 other London weeklies is a composite for 1e of the most notable ics g hat no mat- 8 nvestiga- web of paper over cylinders carrying stereo- b but were simply wn by accelerating tapes, which ed that papers could be gathered one over the proper moment which deposited them on the receiving o e did away completely with hand labor | Tt was. therefore. the beginning of rapid printing at The only duties’men were required to watching to 1. n First Great Power Press. The first press ofsthis pattern was set up in the office .of the New Yo Tribune in 1571. 'Of course it-had n thoroughly tested beforehand. an its makers were conti would do ¥ cls Nevertheless considers {tement- atte 2 s lever wa rown back and tt 1 operation. an to rvolve the 1its cylinders be & per reeled off the web i ithout interrupt nd delay, ile at the other end of t laid; out perfectly 3 1 press delighted all who its operation, and earn he e ) mechanism of almost human intelligence and When the first of th operation it was claimes ability of the paper to s d to be was put ‘into successful no limit to ed except the h the pr This n hour were printed imum speed obtained actual running speed. e web press illustrates the SS. 2,000 per -hour wa ture in this la improvement of v in'which demand has acted to st e invention in this field. The t press did not fold the.papers, but dulivered them flat. They were given to the carriers.in rolls, and it was left to those who sold them to fold them. Here was a chance and a demand for a time-saving mect One fe: nical devica, The newsmen wanted the folding done in the offic gth a folder was devised and put-in operat t was found i ¢ that men hurrying: to their offices or_tr: would_purchs > folded papers . in 1 advanta single publish of comt clearly ay complex du preference to the others. Of cou could not be allowed to’remain in th offices had to put in folders. The & with the others performed by tk more function wdded, to the machine, So it has been with every advance e enlargement of papers by the addition of supplements or odd pages 1t about the necessity of past- ing or stitching-these pages into the main body of the ‘press bad to be devised to do this work To-day the 5 t Bits and are printed, cover an folded, cut and stitched into a’complete pamphlet on a single machine at the rate of 45,000 per hour. Color Printing. innovations-have been in conn uired th n Of more ne ze of competition . _All the press w already The latest ion with color p Tts to_the mechanis single color press built last year for one of the largest untry contained between 50.000 and 60,000 individual pe ms as though fhis was carpying the possibilities of or by No means certain that still furth ade. y- ch. machines: assthis cannot be constructed without g The price of the most improved style of quadruple machine sextuple $45,000, and so on, the price mounting with the comple press itself, and the increase in the work it is intended to do. the best cquipped newspaper office’in ‘the country: the value of the machinery eni- ployed falls Hittle short of $1.000,000 : From the web press of 1871 to the latest improved form de: beginning of this article, with. its speed of .00 per ho radi ange of style or form. The improvements < of detail and in the direction of an increased size and c the present time no thoughtful man would venture to say that the limit of speed has been reached. 1In the future our successors may smils the ‘designation of a pre; hich . pri 5 100,000, papers per hour and with cylinders. revolving 200 times to the minute as “rapid.” Nevertheless. by’ our present standards it is rapid. and its construction deserves to rank among the great dchieyements of the century. 4 : R. HOE. ribed at the there has been e been in mat- pacity. Even